Photographer G. Marinovich was sent to Africa to take photos of the Zulu's protests to being forced out of their homes. They raided towns killing thousands. It was a horrific few years for South Africa. Marinovich won a Pultizer prize after taking this photograph.
The photograph is breathtaking. From a technical side, as a photographer, it follows the rule of thirds. Having each person in one third, the one all the way to the right is in the foreground which gives the photo depth. Your eye immediately goes to the burning man and then must decide whethor or not the man is helping the burning man or not.
It just so happens that the boy in the front is running in a celebratory way, he is very proud of what he has done and the brutal murder taking place. The man to the left is brutally killing the burning man with a machete.
Marinovich said, "This was without doubt the worst day of my life, and the trauma remains with me, despite some twenty years and a lot of coming to terms with the incident, my role and what it means to be involved in murder. This mudered happened a month after I had witnessed the one in Nancefield Hostel, and I was determined to redeem myself by not just being an observer. I neither saved him, nor redeemed myself, though at least I did not act shamefully.”
I find what he said to be touching, but I cannot imagine seeing that and not attempting to do something. I don't feel that there is anyone in the world that deserves to die such a painful and brutal death.
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